In remembrance of
EDWARD WALLETT • JOHN TRANTER • BENJAMIN DAVIES • WILLIAM JARRATT • JOSEPH MAIDEN
JOHN FARR • JOHN JONES • FRANCIS COOKSON • WILLIAM ONIONS

2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the tragic mining accident that claimed the lives of nine local miners in Madeley, Shropshire. This website is designed to help you make the most of a visit to the town, and to the points of interest surrounding the event.

 

Tuesday 27th September 1864, at 5.40pm - nine Madeley miners, most of them boys, began their ascent to the surface at the end of their shift in the Brick Kiln Leasow Crawstone Pit...

The shaft was 220
metres deep Discover the location of the pit The miners travelled
up and down the shaft by
'Riding the Doubles' A crude aparatus that caused
the tragic accident The men were 110 metres
up when the hook and
ring came apart Find out more about the life
of a miner in victorian madeley
When the hook detached,
the men were at a height greater than that of 'Big Ben' Big Ben is 96 metres in height and
the men fell from 110 metres
9
The men crashed through the base of the shaft, through 15cm-thick oak planks into a sump filled with four
metres of water and waste
Discover more Find out more about who they
were and their life in the mine
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